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" The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. "

" When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all. "

" I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever. "

" When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing. "

" You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use. "

" I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. "

" I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music. "

" They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind. "

" Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. "

" The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity. "

" I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down. "

" Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk. "

" It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing. "

" You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others. "

" You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good. "

" The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano. "

" The potential for the saxophone is unlimited. "

" I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete. "

" I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed. "

" Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with. "

" Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo. "

" Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. "

" I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. "

" Saxophone is one thing, and music is another. "

" There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language. "

" Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. "

" If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die. "

" When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly. "

" To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration. "

" Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same. "